Table 1 Characteristics of four EC-FP7 projects coordinated by ICRH

CERCA

1/03/10 –

29/02/14

To contribute to global knowledge about how health systems can be more responsive to the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents and, by extension, to other health needs of Latin American populations.

City of Cuenca (Ecuador)

City of Managua (Nicaragua)

City of Cochabamba (Bolivia)

South Group (Bolivia), University of Cuenca (Ecuador), Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (Lithuania), Amsterdam University (The Netherlands), Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Salud (Nicaragua), Instituto Centro Americano de Salud (Nicaragua)

DIFFER

1/10/11 –

30/09/16

To improve sexual and reproductive health for all women by expanding and strengthening sexual and reproductive health services, and providing and testing targeted interventions for female sex workers in the context of existing health systems.

Mombasa County, Coastal Province (Kenya)

Cities of Tete and Moatize, Tete Province (Mozambique)

City of Durban (eThekwini District), KwaZulu-Natal Province (South Africa)

City of Mysore, Karnataka State (India)

Ashodaya Samithi (India), International Centre for Reproductive Health Association (Kenya), International Centre for Reproductive Health Association (Mozambique), University of the Witwatersrand – MatCH (South Africa), University College London – Institute for Global Health (United Kingdom)

INPAC

1/08/12 –

31/07/16

To evaluate the effectiveness of introducing integrated post-abortion family planning services into existing hospital-based abortion services in China in order to reduce unintended pregnancies and repeated abortions.

30 of 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of mainland China

Chinese Society of Family Planning – Chinese Medical Association (China), Fudan University (China), National Research Institute for Family Planning (China), West China Second University Hospital of Sichuan University (China), University of Aarhus – Danish Epidemiology Science Centre (Denmark), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (United Kingdom)

MOMI

1/02/11 –

31/01/16

To improve maternal and newborn health through a focus on the postpartum period, adopting context-specific strategies to strengthen health care delivery and services at both facility and community level in four sub-Saharan countries.

Kaya District (Burkina Faso)

Kwale District (Kenya)

Ntchisi District (Malawi)

Chiuta District (Mozambique)

Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (Burkina Faso), International Centre for Reproductive Health Association (Kenya), Faculdade de Medicina – Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique), International Centre for Reproductive Health Association (Mozambique), Parent and Child Health Initiative (Malawi), Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto – Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology (Portugal), University College London – Institute for Global Health (United Kingdom)